Multiple classifier combination for character recognition: Revisiting the majority voting system and its variations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2423, Issue , 2002, Pages 167-178

  Rahman, A F R ^a   Alam, H ^a   Fairhurst, M C ^b  

^a BCL Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Majority voting; Multiple classifier combination

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY;

COMBINATION OF MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; COMBINATION STRATEGIES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; MAJORITY VOTING; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SIMPLE MAJORITY; VOTING SYSTEMS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84947791171     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45869-7_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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